#novel

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better. ↗

— Anita Desai

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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. ↗

— Heather Donahue

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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#living #novel #old #ordinariness #thing

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#everything #finished #get #going #haven

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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